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Translating Neil Simon‘S The Dinner Party: A Linguistic Approach, Brigitte Philippe
Translating Neil Simon‘S The Dinner Party: A Linguistic Approach, Brigitte Philippe
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Translation is a challenge. More than just words, languages are ways of looking at the world and these unique perspectives make it hard to talk about a reality which might not exist in the language in which we are trying to express it. It becomes a greater challenge when one tackles theater as it is not a genre translation theories have studied extensively, which means the translator cannot rely on tradition. And the challenge reaches a new level when it comes to translating humor: humor is linguistically and culturally determined. Indeed, languages do not express humor using the same tools …